Diety Quotes by James F. Cooper

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• Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
• Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports…
• Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in…
• Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations…
• Individuality is the aim of political liberty
• Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of…
• The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who…
• The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
• No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
• Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
• Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

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